Missir
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/misiʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Missir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 4.5Kas Misir(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 19Kas Misir
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54Kas Misir
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Missir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
221 named Misir, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Misir
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Misir in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Missir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 221as Misir | 1 in 1.5M | 295 | Misir | 109 |
| HR Croatia | 218as Misir | 1 in 19K | 218 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 168as Misir | 1 in 4.5K | 168 | — | — |
| IN India | 141as Misir | 1 in 9.4M | 141 | Misir | 16 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Misir | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 32as Misir | 1 in 183K | 32 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 21as Misir | 1 in 823K | 21 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1as Misir | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
221 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Missir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, loss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Basile M. Missirb. 1843RORomanian lawyer (1843-1929)
- Ioan Missirb. 1890RORomanian politician (1890-1945)
- Léo Missirb. 1925FRFrench composer (1925-2009)
- Marie-Caroline Missirb. 1978FRFrench journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Missir?
- A machine transcription gives /misiʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Missir have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 221 people named Misir, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Missir most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Missir itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people named Misir.
- How common is the name Missir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 221 people named Misir in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Missir?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/missirThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Missir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.